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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 26.
Published in final edited form as: Biosystems. 2008 Apr 4;92(3):270–281. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.03.007

FIG. 4.

FIG. 4

Schematic representation of the stability criterion (7). The stable states corresponds to minima of the Jacobian and unstable states to a maximum. Small perturbations of a stable steady return the system back to the same state, whereas the system moves from the unstable state into one of the stable states.